And if [it be] from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Ver. 5. From five years old.] Childhood and youth is vanity. There is a bundle of folly in a child's heart. Pro 22:15 The same Greek word νηπιος, signifieth a fool, and a child. And the Hebrew word used to signify youth, Ecc 11:10 signifieth blackness or darkness, to note, that youth is a dark and dangerous age. Few Macariuses to be found, who, for his gravity in youth, was surnamed παιδαριογερων, the old young man. a
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